From: Rob Studdert
On 9 April 2013 05:02, Steve Sharpe <[email protected]> wrote:
In my experience, PC's don't have the longevity of Macs.
Not my experience, I run Dells, IBMs and homebrew systems (based on
top line components) and I have many reliable dell desktops that I
really can't believe are still working away perfectly and servers that
are ancient, the only boxes that I have found to be truly unreliable
are the IBM 1RU servers, I've had an inordinate amount of them die
after only 5 years service. The system that I am working on right now
had a supply date of June 2007 and many of my displays are older than
that, in fact I should look into my old work horse HP2065's as they
have an hour meter for the screen power and back-lighting (curious as
they all still calibrate very well).
This computer I use for rummaging around on the internet has got to be
close to 15 years old. It's still got the "Certificate of Authenticity"
from Windoze98 on the shell from when I first built it.
Of course, I've repaired it & updated it so many times I think the only
original component left is the floppy drive ... which no longer works.
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